IVRPA Archives: News

SPEAKERS: Andrew Balfour, Global Creative Innovation Lead and Gavin Farrell, Sr. Design Manager As the consumption of VR media continues to grow, advertisers are rushing to understand the landscape and produce high-quality VR content. Yahoo is bridging the gap for advertisers to build more immersive, meaningful experiences with new 360 image and video technologies. In… Read More …

Speaker: Andrey Sudarchikov KRPano is one of the most important and flexible pano player engines in our industry. Its droplets are good for quick production, but customising its output involves a very steep learning curve. Fortunately, Andrey Sudarchikov from AirPano is a seasoned KRPano pro, and he’s going to lead three IVRPA conference workshops on… Read More …

SPEAKER: Ben Kreunen Photogrammetry is becoming increasingly popular as a method of creating 3D data of real world scenes for use in game development, VFX and VR. Photogrammetry and panoramic imaging have quite a lot in common in terms of the image processing involved. A quick comparison of online forums will show very similar questions… Read More …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEWS FROM IVRPA You are invited to Québec City 2016 On May 23-27, 2016, Québec City, Canada will be the VR capital of the world! Spanning five days, experts, innovators and other key players in 360 photography and VR video will be presenting, demonstrating and discussing the present and future of these… Read More …

SPEAKER: Thomas Rauscher At the last IVRPA conference in Prague, we showed you our latest version of Pano2VR. Since then, it is out of Beta and we still have more we want to share with you. We will highlight some of the more notable features like the Patches mode, the Components Toolbox, Droplets, and Automatic… Read More …

Spherical panoramas look great in VR; 3-D spheres look spectacular. You can create stereoscopic spheres with standard panography tools, but it takes a lot of photos, a lot of skilled work, and considerable luck. To make 3-D spherical panography really practical, new tools are needed. Read More …

Speaker: Jeremy Doig, Engineering VP, Virtual Reality at Google Over the next few years, Virtual Reality technology will come to consumers in multiple forms – in imaging products, technology platforms and everyday consumption experiences. In this talk, Jeremy will outline Google’s work in this exciting field and the opportunities for creators and visual storytellers to… Read More …

SPEAKER: Charles Armstrong, Product Manager, Google Street View 360 photography is evolving rapidly. DSLR–based panoramic photography remains the top–quality production workflow, but new cameras and services from Google are pioneering a future designed for mainstream adoption. In this talk Charles will share some of Google’s progress as it gears up to support 360 photography at… Read More …

Antonio Victor Garcia-Serrano has been involved with panoramic image capturing since the beginning of the century and was recognised in 2011 as a Master of Contemporary Panoramic Photography. Read More …

I’m a newcomer to the Gear VR headset, but it’s a really exciting and extremely immersive way to experience 360 panorama content. I quickly found that the stock Samsung 360 viewer app was pretty limited, but the ORBX player is much, much more exciting. For me, it’s the most exciting 360 media player on the… Read More …

IVRPA is pleased to announce our annual 360° Virtual Reality Photography and 360° Video conference in Québec City, Québec Canada, on May 23-27 2016 – our first ever Canadian conference! Come join us for talks and presentations from both the pioneers and those on the cutting edge of VR photography & virtual tours, 360° video, virtual reality, and more. Read More …